Dustin Rubenstein was interviewed onESPN Outside the Lines about co-evolution and the defensive shift in baseball. (6/14)

Dustin Rubenstein was awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society to return to northern Kenya to study starling stress physiology. (5/14)

Dustin Rubenstein was awarded a grant from the President’s Office at Columbia University to expand the Kenyan Program in Tropical Biology and Sustainability into a regional East African program. (5/14)

Dustin Rubenstein and Hans Hofmann were awarded a grant from NSF to hold a workshop entitled New Frontiers for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior at the New York Genome Center in August 2014. (5/14)

Sarah Guindre-Parker and Natalie Hofmeister both received research grants from the American Ornithologists’ Union. (4/14)

Katherine Brooks was awarded a Columbia Frontiers of Science Fellowship to do postdoctoral work in the lab. (4/14)

Dustin Rubenstein was promoted to Associate Professor after a successful 5th Year review. (4/14)

Gillian Carling, a senior at The Bronx High School of Science, was admitted to Columbia’s class of 2017 and will be starting in the fall. (4/13)

Hannah Skolnik was admitted to the 2013 Amgen Scholar’s Program. She is 1 of 250 students admitted from a national pool of more than 6,200 applications. (4/13)

Kaitlyn Gaynor and Julia Pilowsky were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to fund their PhD work at UC Berkeley and Tufts, respectively. Rebecca Kelley received an honorable mention. (4/13)

Gillian Carling, a senior at The Bronx High School of Science, was named a Finalist at the New York City Science and Engineering Fair for her work on hermaphroditism, sex determination, and sociality in snapping shrimp. (3/13)

Julia Pilowsky’s undergraduate senior was published in the April edition of Animal Behaviour, where it is featured in the In Focus section. (3/13)

Dustin Rubenstein and colleagues (Jennifer Fewell and Jim Hunt) were awarded a grant from the NSF-funded National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) to co-organize a working group entitled “Large-scale demographic, network and behavioral trait analyses of sociality” from 2011 - 2013. (2/11)

2010

Dustin Rubenstein and colleagues (EIleen Lacey, Steven Phelps, and Nancy Solomon) were awarded a grant from the NSF-funded National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) to co-organize a working group entitled “Integrative models of vertebrate sociality: evolution, mechanism and emergent properties” from 2011 - 2012. (10/10)

Dustin Rubenstein was awarded the 2011 Young Investigator Award by the Animal Behavior Society. (8/10)

After a number of requests from the public, the Rubenstein Lab created a Facebook page to promote our research. (8/10)

Dustin Rubenstein’s 2004 TREE paper was named as a “Fast Moving Front” by Thomson Reuters. (9/09)

The Rubenstein Lab has finally moved to Columbia University and was profiled in The Record. (8/09)

Melissa Mark was awarded a 3-yr NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work in the Rubenstein Lab starting in Jan 2010. (5/09)

2008

Tyler Davis was awarded an Explorers’ Club Grant for his research on sexual conflict in superb starlings. (6/08)

After long delays at KWS, Wilson Nderitu finally graduated with his Diploma in Wildlife Management from the Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute. (6/08)

Dustin Rubenstein has accepted an offer to become an Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University and will start in Fall 2009. (3/08)

Rebecca Calisi was awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to study brain neural plasticity in relation to the adoption of different breeding roles in free-living cooperatively breeding superb starlings in Kenya. Becca also won the award for Best Student Poster from the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology’s Division of Neuroscience at the 2008 SICB annual meeting. (1/08)